An Ignoble Experiment: Celebrating five years of publishing high-quality open access research

This June marks the 5th anniversary of Scientific Reports publishing its first articles! Featuring authors from North America, Europe and Asia, and covering a diverse range of topics, these inaugural papers reflected from the outset the international and multidisciplinary scope of the journal. Now, as the world’s leading multi-disciplinary, scientifically valid open access journal, Scientific Reports has become the home for scientifically valid research.